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Jeering Dreamers
The re-emergence in recent years of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam as a key figure in fin de siècle literature can be attributed in large part to the intense interest his prescient l'Eve future (1886) has generated among scholars. In effect, the novel confronts with breathtaking focus central taboos and ambivalences about the decadent period. It posits an inescapable, mechanistic linkage between desire and technology; it suggests the constructed nature of gender; it casts woman down so as to exalt her, even as it intimates the arbitrariness and fragility of the empowerment prerogatives implicit in such an operation. It is this mine for the study of fin de siècle mentalities that the present volume explores. Begun at the 1992 NCFS colloquium at Binghamton University as a collective project of the Friends of Villiers, Jeering Dreamers brings together 13 essays by Villiers scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Their work promises, in the words of the eminent Villièrien Alan Raitt, to 'Éclairer l'Eve future d'un jour nouveau-ou, plus exactement, de plusieurs jours nouveaux.
Romantic Border Crossings
Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. As this diverse group of essays demonstrates, we can now speak of a global Romanticism that encompasses emerging critical categories such as Romantic pedagogy, transatlantic studies, and transnationalism, with the result that 'new' works by writers marginalized by class, gender, race, or geography are invited into the canon at the same time that fresh readings of traditional texts emerge. Exemplifying these developments, the authors and topics examined include Elizabeth Inchbald, Lord Byron, Gérard de Nerval, English Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Anglo-American conflicts, manifest destiny, and teaching romanticism. The collection constitutes a powerful rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies.
Discovery and Empire
The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a storm near the Cape of Good Hope. The story of his voyage remained largely forgotten for over 150 years, but eventually resurfaced in 1664 thanks to the publication by the Abbe Jean Paulmier of a document in which he argued, on the basis of this supposed discovery, for the establishment of a Christian mission in this "third part" of the world. While historians today contest the authenticity of various aspects of the Abbe Paulmier's Memoires, there is no doubt about t...
Preserving the Provinces
Though famed for his vivid depictions of nineteenth-century Paris, Honoré de Balzac devoted as much of his creative energy to the provinces. This book examines the way in which he combined a theatrical tradition of anti-provincial satire with a more open celebration of French provincial life in the post-Revolutionary period. Ranging widely over texts from both within and outside La Comédie humaine, the author analyses Balzac's determination to invest the Rousseauist nostalgia for country over city with an updated rationale. A champion of central authority and absolutist government, Balzac is seen here in an unfamiliar role as the guardian of regional culture, a novelist who sought to recor...
Gaspard de la nuit
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La vérité littéraire entre la sensibilité et la pensée chez Gérard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval harmonise avec finesse la sensibilité et la pensée au travers de ses ouvrages, notamment "Les Filles du feu" et "Les Chimères". En adoptant une approche poétique, Lahoucine El Merabet ouvre de nouvelles perspectives sur la compréhension globale de ces textes et explore un cheminement esthétique qui vise à élever le pouvoir du langage et sa dimension littéraire. Son étude accorde une attention particulière aux modèles philosophiques et aux figures d’autorité, soulignant ainsi l’importance de la littérature comme espace où l’auteur façonne une réflexion intégrant l’univers intime et subjectif. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Docteur et agrégé de lettres modernes, Lahoucine El Merabet est auteur de plusieurs ouvrages parmi lesquels "L’écriture du temps dans Sylvie de Gérard de Nerval" publié en 2016 aux éditions Édilivre et "La sensibilité pensante à l’œuvre dans Le livre du sang de Khatibi" paru en 2018 aux éditions L’Harmattan.
Nature et paysages
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Nulle Part Et Ses Environs
Etudie l'utopie dans la littérature du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement les oeuvres évoquant un déplacement dans l'espace plutôt qu'une cité idéale, autre sens du terme. Ainsi, la littérature de voyage est abordée sous ses différentes formes : romans, contes philosophiques, satires et récits de voyage, avec des auteurs tels que Chateaubriand, Voltaire, Marivaux ...
